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My artistic practice moves between dance theatre, site-responsive performance, choreography, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Through performance, I investigate identity, memory, belonging, resilience, and the ways our bodies carry both personal and collective histories.

Rooted in my experience growing up in Manenberg, Cape Town, my work explores themes of home, migration, queer identity, community, and the lasting impact of colonial and social structures. Each performance becomes an invitation to witness lived experience while opening space for dialogue, reflection, and connection.

Môre Môre Môre

A body carries a house through Manenberg, where memory stains the ground. A quiet defiance, holding colonial violence as lived and unresolved. 

 Produced by: Film by Nomandla and The AIM Society

Môre Môre Môre | Darion Adams | Pina Bausch Fellowship 2025

Presented as part of the Pina Bausch Fellowship 2025 at the Pina Bausch Centre, as part of the PINA BAUSCH FUTURE LAB, in Wuppertal, Germany, created in collaboration with fellowship mentor Moya Michael. Môre Môre Môre reflects on today, tomorrow, and the futures that performance can imagine within communities such as Manenberg.

"Wanne jy my naam hoor"

‘Wanne jy my naam hoor’ is dance piece which asks: What do you really hear? This performance, created by Darion Adams explores how people and places are seen - and sometimes not seen. 

Created at Purple Mountain Arts Residency 2026

//is ge sada, sada ge //is - she is us and we are her

  • is a site-responsive dance performance first performed at the Infecting the City Public Arts Festival. Rooted in movement and memory, the work explores the erasure and ongoing violence against Indigenous Khoi women, children and queer bodies in South Africa.
Produced by Infecting the City Indigenous Arts Fellowship, The AIM Society and Munanai Theatre Company

Pr(act)ice

An improvised performance by Darion Adams formed part of the intimate music launch event “Thokozani Mhlambi & Friends” held at Theatre Arts, Observatory. Set against live compositions by Thokozani Mhlambi and Edward Funguy, and illuminated through the sensitive lighting design of Mandilakhe Zunguze, the performance unfolded as a spontaneous dialogue between movement, sound, and atmosphere — a moment of shared creation that celebrated collaboration and artistic instinct.

STAND TF UP!

RECLAMATION: HOME

BODIES UNDER SIEGE

Live at OPEN BOOK FESTIVAL with Nkateko Masinga

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